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Wisconsin Film Festival Titles

Following are a sampling of past Wisconsin Film Festival films that are owned by the library system. For a list of all films featured in the last few years, see the Wisconsin Film Festival's Archives.

                      

2008

• All the president's men
• Big country
• Bon cop, bad cop
• Man of the century
• My man Godfrey
• Parting glances
• Planet of the apes
• Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf

2007

• Air guitar nation
• 12:08 East of Bucharest (Romanian)
• Bamako (French)
• Boss of It All (Danish)
• Chalk
• Climates (Turkish)
• Close to Home (Hebrew)
• Collector of Bedford Streeg
• Diggers
• Everything's Gone Green
• Exiled (Cantonese)
• Family Law ( Spanish)
• Fay Grim
• Gods and Monsters
• Grbavica ( Serbo-Croation)
• Great Match (Spanish)
• Henry Fool
• Into Great Silence (French)
• Killer of Sheep
• Linda Linda Linda (Japanese)
• Lion in Winter
• Madeinusa (Spanish)
• Man push cart
• Manufactured Landscapes
• Poison Friends (French)
• Rang de Basanti (Hindi)
• Red Road
• Slanted Screen
• Something Like Happiness (Czech)
• Spirit of the Beehive (Spanish)
• Ten Canoes (Australian/Aboriginal)
• U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (Xhosa)
• Young Frankenstein

2006

• Aaltra (French)
• Awesome, I Shot That
• Beauty Academy of Kabul
• Been Rich all My Life
• Cinema Aspirins and Vultures (Portuguese)
• Conventioneers
• Darwin's Nightmare
• Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romanian)
• El inmigrante
• Favela Rising (Portuguesse)
• Gang's All Here
• Iron Island
• Isolation
• King, The
• Lady Vengeance
• Laura (1944) 
• Little Fish  
• Lonesome Jim
• Look Both Ways
• Metal, a headbanger's journey 
• Mongolian Ping Pong (Mongolian)
• Music from the Inside Out
• Mutual Appreciations
• New York Doll
• Night of the Living Dorks
• Night of Truth (French)
• Our Brand Is Crisis
• Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
• President's last bang 
• Private (Arabic)
• Red Doors
• Shakespeare Behind Bars
• Sir! No Sir!
• Stolen Life (Mandarin)
• Syrian Bride
• Sweet Land

2005

• 11-14
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Be Here to Love Me [Townes Van Zandt]
• The Big Red One: the Reconstruction
• Brothers (Brodre)
• Childstar
• Cronicas
• Dandelion
• Daughter of Keltoum
• Double Dare
• Far Side of the Moon (French)
• Godfather of Green Bay
• Fuse
• Head-on
• In the Realms of the Unreal
• It's All Gone Pete Tong
• King of the Corner
• Kings & Queen
• Kontroll
• League of Ordinary Gentlemen
• Lipstick and Dynamite: First Ladies of Wrestling
• Lost Embrace
• NBT: Never Been Thawed
• Night and the City (1950)
• The Nomi Song
• Notre Musique
• Oldboy
• Shijie: The World
• Side Effects
• Somersault
• The Take
• Tell Them Who You Are
• Travellers and Magicians
• Vodka Lemon
• Wheel of Time
• Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

2004

• Ptu (Cantonese & Mandarin)
• Afro-Punk
• Angel on the Right (Tajik)
• The Agronomist
• Charlie: the Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
• The Corporation
• Divan
• Eyes Without a Face
• Festival Express
• The Fight
• The Five Obstructions
• Goodbye Dragon Inn
• Intermission
• James’ Journey to Jerusalem
• Ju-on: The Grudge
• Last Life in the Universe
• Noi
• Patriot's Day
• Reconstruction (Danish and Swedish)
• S21: Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
• Since Otar Left
• Slasher
• Stone Reader
• The Story of the Weeping Camel
• Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
• The Yes Men
• Yossi and Jagger

2003

• Amandla!
• Bend it Like Beckham
• Better Luck Tomorrow
• Blackboards
• La Captive
• Derrida
• Devils on the Doorstep
• Divine Intervention (Arabic and Hebrew)
• The Eye
• Hard Day’s Night
• Kiss Me Stupid
• Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Morvern Callar
• Painted Fire (Chihwaseion)
• The Red Balloon
• Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time
• Robot Stories
• Satin Rouge
• The Sea (Hafith)
• Shaolin Soccer
• The Son
• Spellbound (2002)
• Spun
• Stevie
• The Trials of Henry Kissinger
• Unprecedented: the 2000 Presidential Election
• The Weather Underground

2002

• 101 Reykjavik
• Amos Gitai: Images of Exile (series): Berlin Jerusalem; Esther; Golem the Spirit of Exile
• Big Bad Love
• La Cienaga
• Cool and Crazy
• Daresalam
• Daughter from Danang
• The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)
• High Fidelity
• Home Movie
• Kandahar
• Kippur
• A Little Princess (1995)
• Lola
• Manic
• Maya
• No Sleep Til Madison
• Okie Noodling
• Our Song
• The Outfit
• Promises
• The Sid Boyum Sculpture Project
• Songs from the Second Floor
• That’s My Face
• Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
• The Times of Harvey Milk
• Trembling Before G_D
• Waydowntown
• What Time is it There?
• Y Tu Mama Tambien

2001

• American Chai
• Attack the Gas Station
• Bangkok Dangerous
• Better Living Through Circuitry
• Blind Light
• Les Bonnes Femmes
• Calle 54
• Cane Toads: an Unnatural History
• Chunhyang
• Don’t Look Back
• Foul King ( Cantonese & Mandarin)
• Gap-Toothed Women
• Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers
• George Washington (David Gordon Green)
• The Gleaners and I
• Hearts and Minds
• In Heaven There is no Beer?
• The Last Waltz
• Long Night’s Journey into Day
• The Natural History of the Chicken
• O! Su-joun (Korean)
• Perfromance
• The Price of Milk
• Rhyme & Reason
• Series 7 – the Contenders
• Six-String Samurai
• Songs for Cassavetes
• Suzhou River (Mandarin)
• Taboo (Gohatto)
• The Terrorist (Theeviravaathi)
• This is What Democracy Looks Like
• Thomas est amoureux (French)
• A Well Spent Life
• Werner Herzog Eats his Shoe
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
• Yi Yi (A One and a Two)

2000

• Around the Fire
• Chump Change
• Genghis Blues
• Grand Illusion (1937)
• Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis at 100
• Once Upon a Time Cinema
• Re-Animator
• The Silence
• The Straight Story
• Trans
• Well-founded Fear
• Wisconsin Death Trip

Tribute to Walter Mirisch:

• The Apartment - Billy Wilder, 1960
• Fiddler on the Roof - Norman Jewison, 1971
• In the Heat of the Night - Norman Jewison, 1967
• The Magnificent Seven - John Sturges, 1960
• Same Time, Next Year - Robert Mulligan, 1978
• Some Like it Hot - Billy Wilder, 1959
• West Side Story - Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, 1961

1999

• Man of the Century
• The War at Home

updated March 2006

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